Architect Jobs in the South West

Architect
England > South West

The median Architect salary in the South West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 30 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 518 549 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.66% 7.84% 5.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.89% 8.78% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 259 174 226
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,063 £47,400
25th Percentile £62,250 £56,219 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £86,549 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.57% +1.82% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the South West.

Salary trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South West

Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +2 281 £79,632 +6.18% 52
Wiltshire +6 124 £70,000 -3.42% 1
Gloucestershire -66 42 £70,000 -22.22% 5
Dorset -10 24 £91,250 +15.87% 3
Somerset +2 17 £45,585 -50.54% 10
Devon -20 13 £71,840 +51.18% 3
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 214 (41.31%) Security Cleared
2 154 (29.73%) TOGAF
3 148 (28.57%) Agile
4 142 (27.41%) Azure
5 137 (26.45%) Actionable Insight
6 132 (25.48%) AWS
7 108 (20.85%) Microsoft
8 107 (20.66%) Roadmaps
9 106 (20.46%) Social Skills
10 96 (18.53%) Finance
11 91 (17.57%) SC Cleared
12 86 (16.60%) DevOps
13 84 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
14 82 (15.83%) ArchiMate
15 78 (15.06%) Validation
16 70 (13.51%) Degree
17 69 (13.32%) Cloud Native
18 67 (12.93%) Migration
19 65 (12.55%) Business Case
20 64 (12.36%) DV Cleared
21 63 (12.16%) Microservices
22 62 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
23 61 (11.78%) Model Validation
24 60 (11.58%) Technical Architecture
25 59 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
26 58 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
27 56 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
28 53 (10.23%) Requirements Management
29 51 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
29 51 (9.85%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.77%) ArcGIS
1 4 (0.77%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.39%) CMS
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 40 (7.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (27.41%) Azure
2 132 (25.48%) AWS
3 59 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (7.14%) GCP
6 35 (6.76%) PaaS
7 34 (6.56%) IaaS
8 33 (6.37%) SaaS
9 19 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 18 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.93%) OCI
13 7 (1.35%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.16%) Serverless
15 5 (0.97%) Azure Stack
16 4 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.37%) VSAT
2 22 (4.25%) DNS
2 22 (4.25%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.47%) DHCP
3 18 (3.47%) HTTP
4 7 (1.35%) Firewall
4 7 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.16%) Network Security
5 6 (1.16%) SSL
6 4 (0.77%) BGP
6 4 (0.77%) VoIP
7 3 (0.58%) Broadband
7 3 (0.58%) PBX
7 3 (0.58%) Tactical Data Link
8 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.19%) RTP
9 1 (0.19%) VPN
9 1 (0.19%) WAN
9 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (3.28%) Big Data
3 11 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.74%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.54%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.54%) Looker
6 7 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.77%) GIS
8 4 (0.77%) Metadata
8 4 (0.77%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.58%) MySQL
10 2 (0.39%) Power BI
11 1 (0.19%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
1 3 (0.58%) Git
1 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.58%) JUnit
1 3 (0.58%) Maven
2 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 106 (20.46%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.53%) Finance
3 41 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 36 (6.95%) Aerospace
6 32 (6.18%) Banking
7 26 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (4.83%) Retail
9 19 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (3.67%) Marketing
9 19 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 17 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.51%) Law
12 11 (2.12%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.93%) Military
14 9 (1.74%) Legal
15 7 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.97%) Electronics
17 3 (0.58%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.07%) .NET
2 22 (4.25%) OpenID
3 21 (4.05%) HTML
4 18 (3.47%) SAML
5 14 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.74%) Kafka
7 7 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.16%) Middleware
9 5 (0.97%) Spring
10 4 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.58%) CSS
11 3 (0.58%) Hibernate
11 3 (0.58%) Java SE
11 3 (0.58%) JPA
11 3 (0.58%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.58%) Playwright
11 3 (0.58%) REST
11 3 (0.58%) Swagger
11 3 (0.58%) YAML
12 2 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.07%) Public Cloud
3 23 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (3.47%) Cyberattack
6 17 (3.28%) Taxonomies
7 13 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.12%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.74%) Blockchain
11 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.35%) PKI
12 6 (1.16%) CCTV
12 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.97%) Replication
13 5 (0.97%) Robotics
14 4 (0.77%) Mainframe
15 3 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.37%) Linux
2 7 (1.35%) Windows
3 5 (0.97%) Unix
4 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (29.73%) TOGAF
2 148 (28.57%) Agile
3 137 (26.45%) Actionable Insight
4 107 (20.66%) Roadmaps
5 86 (16.60%) DevOps
6 84 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 82 (15.83%) ArchiMate
8 78 (15.06%) Validation
9 67 (12.93%) Migration
10 65 (12.55%) Business Case
11 63 (12.16%) Microservices
12 62 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
13 61 (11.78%) Model Validation
14 60 (11.58%) Technical Architecture
15 58 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (10.23%) Requirements Management
17 51 (9.85%) Analytics
17 51 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
18 48 (9.27%) Business Strategy
19 47 (9.07%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.92%) Python
2 23 (4.44%) Java
3 14 (2.70%) C
3 14 (2.70%) SQL
4 8 (1.54%) Ruby
5 7 (1.35%) C#
5 7 (1.35%) C++
6 6 (1.16%) Bash
6 6 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.77%) R
7 4 (0.77%) Scala
8 3 (0.58%) Bicep
8 3 (0.58%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (41.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 70 (13.51%) Degree
4 64 (12.36%) DV Cleared
5 56 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (5.02%) AWS Certification
7 26 (5.02%) CISSP
8 22 (4.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.67%) CISM
10 15 (2.90%) CISA
11 14 (2.70%) CRISC
12 10 (1.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (1.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 8 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.97%) CCSP
15 5 (0.97%) CEH
15 5 (0.97%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.12%) GDPR
4 10 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.58%) COBIT
7 3 (0.58%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.58%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.58%) RMADS
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.39%) NCSC
8 2 (0.39%) QA
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.16%) Docker
3 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Firmware
5 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 37 (7.14%) Terraform
2 34 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.47%) Ansible
4 17 (3.28%) Puppet
5 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.58%) OpenView
6 2 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (20.85%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.72%) Sparx
3 33 (6.37%) Google
4 23 (4.44%) Oracle
5 17 (3.28%) VMware
6 11 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.16%) PagerDuty
8 5 (0.97%) Cisco
8 5 (0.97%) Pega
9 4 (0.77%) ESRI
9 4 (0.77%) SAP
10 3 (0.58%) Adobe
10 3 (0.58%) BMC
10 3 (0.58%) HP
10 3 (0.58%) Remedy
10 3 (0.58%) Ribbon
10 3 (0.58%) Riverbed
10 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.58%) Splunk
10 3 (0.58%) Twitter